Christian Friedel was overcome with shame. Days before playing Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, in Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, the German actor ...

German SS officer Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) helps oversee the development of gas chambers in "The Zone of Interest." Friedel's biggest challenge was to give “this evil person a human face ...

Shocking scenes from Auschwitz film reveal how kids played in garden while their father gassed 1million just feet away. ... Rudolf Höss had an unfathomably sadistic personality. Most read in The Sun.

The kids swim in the pool. Hedwig tends to her ... Rudolf Höss—who was tried for mass murder and hanged in Auschwitz following a trial in 1947—may not have admitted his sins to himself in ...

Christian Friedel opens up about his haunting turn as Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, in Jonathan Glazer’s masterful ‘The Zone of Interest.’ ...

Who was Rudolf Höss? Rudolf Höss was the Nazi commandant who oversaw the mass killing operations at Auschwitz-Birkenau, having been posted there from 1940 until nearly the end of the war.Before ...

And it just happens to be Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), the notorious real-life former commandant of the camp, and his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller, brilliant in a terribly difficult role).

What does the ending of The Zone of Interest mean? At the end of The Zone of Interest, Rudolf Höss is in Berlin securing his place as one of the chief perpetrators of the Holocaust.. With his ...

Mr. Höss, he said, “was a wonderful father to his kids and, at the same time, the main organizer of the most brutal killings in the history of the world.” Anatol Magdziarz contributed ...

Glazer’s new German-language film, The Zone of Interest, which comes after another 10-year absence from features, is a devastating Holocaust drama like no other, which demonstrates with ...